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19-letter words containing a, s, p, o

  • league championship — the competition to become league champions
  • leisure occupations — activities which you enjoy and which you perform in your free time
  • liaodong pensinsula — a peninsula of NE China, in S Manchuria extending south into the Yellow Sea: forms the S part of Liaoning province
  • line-of-battle ship — ship of the line.
  • lipopolysaccharides — Plural form of lipopolysaccharide.
  • look sb up and down — If someone looks you up and down, they direct their eyes from your head to your feet, in a rude and superior way and often as though they disapprove of you.
  • lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
  • maestro di cappella — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp a private one attached to the palace of a prince in Italy during the baroque period
  • main-topgallantmast — the mast next above the main-topmast.
  • make a pig's ear of — to ruin disastrously
  • means of production — resources: equipment, workers
  • megabits per second — (unit)   (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps.
  • meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
  • metaphosphoric acid — an acid, HPO 3 , derived from phosphorous pentoxide, and containing the smallest amount of water of the phosphoric acids.
  • metatarsophalangeal — (anatomy) Relating to the metatarsus and phalange.
  • missionary position — a position for sexual intercourse in which the couple lies face to face with the male on top.
  • mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
  • multiplication sign — Arithmetic. the symbol (⋅), (×), or (∗) between two mathematical expressions, denoting multiplication of the second expression by the first. In certain algebraic notations the sign is suppressed and multiplication is indicated by immediate juxtaposition or contiguity, as in ab.
  • nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
  • nasty piece of work — malicious person
  • natural catastrophe — A natural catastrophe is an unexpected event, caused by nature, such as an earthquake or flood, in which there is a lot of suffering, damage, or death.
  • neuropsychodynamics — The theoretical synthesis of neuroscience and psychodynamics.
  • newcastle upon tyne — 1st Duke of, Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
  • newtonian telescope — a reflecting telescope in which a mirror or reflecting prism is mounted on the axis near the eyepiece so that the image may be viewed from outside the telescope tube at right angles to the axis.
  • nicolaus copernicus — Nicolaus [nik-uh-ley-uh s] /ˌnɪk əˈleɪ əs/ (Show IPA), (Mikolaj Kopernik) 1473–1543, Polish astronomer who promulgated the now accepted theory that the earth and the other planets move around the sun (the Copernican System)
  • nine plus two array — the arrangement of microtubules in a flagellum or cilium, consisting of a ring of nine evenly spaced couplets surrounding two central singlets. Symbol: 9 + 2.
  • non causa pro causa — the fallacy of giving as a reason for a conclusion a proposition not actually relevant to that conclusion.
  • non-contemporaneous — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • nonrepresentational — not resembling or portraying any object in physical nature: a nonrepresentational painting.
  • norfolk island pine — a coniferous evergreen tree, Araucaria heterophylla (or A. excelsa), having whorled branches and needlelike foliage, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • notre-dame-de-paris — Also called Notre Dame de Paris [French naw-truh dam duh pa-ree] /French nɔ trə dam də paˈri/ (Show IPA). a famous early gothic cathedral in Paris (started 1163).
  • o tempora! o mores! — oh the times! oh the customs!: an exclamation at the evil of them
  • oceanus procellarum — (Ocean of Storms) the largest dark plain on the face of the moon, in the second and third quadrants: about 2 million square miles (5.2 million sq. km).
  • old english pattern — a spoon pattern having a stem curving backward at the end.
  • old spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • on an empty stomach — If you do something on an empty stomach, you do it without having eaten.
  • on pins and needles — a tingly, prickly sensation in a limb that is recovering from numbness.
  • one's pride and joy — Someone or something that is your pride and joy is very important to you and makes you feel very happy.
  • open the floodgates — If events open the floodgates to something, they make it possible for that thing to happen much more often or much more seriously than before.
  • open-hearth process — a process of steelmaking in which the charge is laid in a furnace (open-hearth furnace) on a shallow hearth and heated directly by burning gas as well as radiatively by the furnace walls.
  • operational testing — (testing)   A US DoD term for testing performed by the end-user on software in its normal operating environment.
  • operations director — a director or senior manager who oversees the efficiency of business operations
  • operations research — the analysis, usually involving mathematical treatment, of a process, problem, or operation to determine its purpose and effectiveness and to gain maximum efficiency.
  • optical double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • ordnance survey map — An Ordnance Survey map is a detailed map produced by the British or Irish government map-making organization.
  • orthopaedic surgeon — a surgeon specializing in the branch of surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
  • orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
  • overplay one's hand — If you say that someone is overplaying something such as a problem, you mean that they are making it seem more important than it really is.
  • palaeoethnobotanist — someone who studies fossil seeds and grains to further archaeological knowledge, esp of the domestication of cereals
  • paleoanthropologist — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
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